The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

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so we're left with the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man eh

I recognize the spots that could be lolsome, but I've never been able to lol at TCM. The stumbling block I can't get past is the screaming and how it never, ever stops. But I can see how even that could be funny to the right person.

It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

I do like that the hitchhiker is doing Bobcat Goldthwaite years before he was even a thing.

the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man
would see this movie

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

^^^exactly

nothing remotely scary/horrifying about it

lol @ Lechera

I recognize the spots that could be lolsome, but I've never been able to lol at TCM. The stumbling block I can't get past is the screaming and how it never, ever stops.

otm. on that level, it's as distressing as any "torture porn" film.

All credit goes to Pillbox, including the decision to make the Top 10 rotating gifs.

I've been doing the assembly, sure, b/c that is what I *do* - but esp in the final stages of the rollout, I just wanted to point out that the selection process etc. was all very collaborative.

i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this

Already broke this rule a lot, but mostly to praise the movies I love here, which is less a problem since it's a "top 100" list and all.

the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man
would see this movie

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well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

Cult hippies are way scarier than hicks.

Anyway, don't get me wrong, obviously I can pinpoint the bits of TWM that are also lolsome, but I guess this is my preference for creep rather than slash coming out...

The Alien, The Thing, The Shining, the Psycho, the Wicker Man, the Cook, his Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

"Psycho and the Wicker Man" really does sound like some 70s cop/private detective joint.

xp ROFL

Been desperately searching for "TCM" bit in "Summer School," but I did find this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPGROgL-b2s

Cult hippies are way scarier than hicks.

is this some sort of Manson vs. Gein binary

That's like asking which is scarier: my family or my 20s?

I get the black humor in TCM, but not one frame of that movie is lolsome to me. It hits me in a very deep and nightmarish place.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

"It WAS ... until Mr. Hal Jam's MOTHER'S ballot SWITCHED them back around! Hee-hee!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/7262257888_2790462214_o.gif

06. PSYCHO
Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960
(1049 points, 28 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, now 50 years old -- great 20th-century art or mere "carnivalesque" shocker?

re the shrink's monologue: Try to imagine what the average American thought about crossdressing in 1959.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:49 PM (2 years ago)

it's pretty audacious that the movie spends 1/2 hour with Marion and her plot before she gets killed off, I can't imagine a movie going that far just to fuck with you these days
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 9:48 AM (2 years ago)

Wicker Man beating this is some bullshit

this post to be c+p'ed as necessary

my parents saw Psycho on a date without knowing much about it and it scarred my mother to the point where she almost cries at any type of jump scare

"If it's Alien or The Shining"

oh, MUST RESPECT canon, eh Phil, just like all the silent and Sturges stuff in the comedy poll?

well, this was my #2, so somebody lied. Also, TOO LOW.

I agree with that. "Psycho" is never dull, even when the psych is babbling at the end. But "Wicker Man" ... I dunno. She does have sex with a door, I guess.

xpost.

also my dad took baths instead of showers for like a week afterward

Eeeeeg, that shot of the body shape in the mattress!

To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if The Wicker Man is actually going to be perplexingly missed out. I can see it beating a bunch of these, but... beating Psycho? Really? But then... surely it can't have been beaten by everything else here, including a film that only came out a week before voting? Surely?

per Robin Wood, I think of Psycho as the cinematic equivalent of Hamlet as much as a proto-slasher film.

I do like the smell-ntal image I have of people walking around in 1960 in total full stink due to their newfound fear of showers.

i know
either way it won't end well

option a: everyone hates on the wicker man
option b: wicker man gets shut out

both result in ;_;

all of this "how can hicks be terrifying" stuff is making me think that england must have really low-quality hicks or something

High quality hicks in "Straw Dogs!"

my mother saw psycho by herself in 1960 when she was 10 yrs old

English hicks, yesterday:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article_images/articledir_12509/6254898/1_fullsize.jpg

i mean to be clear "backwoods psycho" is one of the cornerstones of horror, but maybe more so/only in america? honest question

Lots of proto-backwoods psychos in Hammer-ville, no?

also might explain tragic lack of the hills have eyes here. also i am totally amazed that last house on the left didnt make this poll at all, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

In England, the backwoods psychos live in castles near quaint villages.

Dracula: backwoods psycho.

(also: vampire)

Nah, I totally get the trope, but I think the Brit version is maybe more culty/hippy anyway?

xposts - yeah, we're a lot smaller, the threat tends to be little village conspiracies, rather than isolated US nutters... I think.

Also, when your car breaks down in rural England, you're never that far from a big city.

in the novel, Norman Bates is a squat Rod Steiger type

omg that nic cage wicker man montage

In the novelization of Psycho II that I once read, Norman Bates is just like Anthony Perkins.

This, btw, is far and away one of the best film-studies books I've ever read, not just on "Psycho," but at all.

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm118050261/a-long-hard-look-psycho-raymond-durgnat-paperback-cover-art.jpg

I haven't seen The Wicker Man yet, but apart from The Shining (which, surely, must be #1), I can't think of any horror films better than Psycho.

http://rue-morgue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Official-Norman-Bates-Halloween-Costume-Rubies-Costume-Co.-235x490.jpg